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Goals:: 1. HISTORY
Standards:
1. identify and explain the sources of conflict which led to the American Revolution with emphasis on Proclamation of 1763, Stamp Act, Townshend Acts, and tax on tea.
2. identify key individuals and summarize their roles in the American Revolution, such as Thomas Jefferson, King George, Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine, Samuel Adams, and Benjamin Franklin.
3. explain the political significance of the Declaration of Independence.
4. analyze major military battles and the role of major American and British military leaders in the American Revolution, such as Lexington and Concord, Saratoga, Yorktown, Bunker Hill, George Washington, Benedict Arnold, George Rogers Clark, William Howe, John Burgoyne, and Charles Cornwallis.
5. analyze the reasons why the colonies were able to defeat the British.
6. describe the successes and problems of the government under the Articles of Confederation.
7. contrast the differing points of view and compromises reached in the writing of the Constitution in 1787.
8. describe the basic structure of government adopted by the Constitutional Convention.
9. contrast the views of the Federalists and Anti-Federalists in the struggle for ratification of the Constitution.
10. explain the fundamental liberties stated in the Bill of Rights.
11. summarize and describe the emergence of two political parties and their leaders, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton.
12. analyze the settlement patterns of the American people from the late 1700s to the mid-1800s focusing on how and why the land was acquired and settled, to include Louisiana Purchase, Florida, Oregon, and Texas.
13. examine how the following conflicts during the early to mid 1800s led to acquisition and settlement of land, to include War of 1812, Indian Conflict, Texas Revolution, and Mexican War.
14. evaluate the impact of inventions from the late 1700s to the mid 1800s, such as cotton gin, McCormick reaper, steamboat, and steam locomotive.
15. summarize the causes, key events, and effects of the Civil War with emphasis on philosophical differences between the North and South, as exemplified by men such as Daniel Webster and John C. Calhoun on the constitutional issues of the doctrine of nullification and secession; geographic and economic differences between the agricultural South and industrial North; Abraham Lincoln's presidency and his significant writings and speeches and their relationship to the Declaration of Independence, such as his "House Divided" speech (1858), the Gettysburg Address (1863), his second inaugural address of 1865; the views and lives of leaders and soldiers on both sides of the war including Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Sojourner Truth; and the critical developments in the war including the major battles, geographical advantages and obstacles, technological advances, and Lee's surrender at Appomattox.
16. analyze the impact of the Reconstruction policies with emphasis on the postwar impact of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments to the Constitution, and their connection to the Reconstruction; Lincoln's plan and the plan of Congress; migration of former slaves to cities in the North and West; and the effects of the Freedman's Bureau and the Jim Crow laws on the South.
17. explain how, following the Civil War, massive immigration combined with the rise of big business, heavy industry, and mechanized farming transformed American life with emphasis on: western settlement and changing federal policy toward the Indians, obstacles faced and contributions made by immigrants, and the growth of American cities.
18. explain the impact of industrialization and urbanization with emphasis on reform movements such as muckraking literature, the Progressive movement, women's suffrage and temperance, child labor, and organized labor, significant inventors and their inventions (e.g., Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Orville and Wilbur Wright); and laissez-faire policies toward big business and the rise of entrepreneurs and industrialists in politics, commerce, and industry (e.g., Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller).
19. describe and analyze the changing role of the United States in world affairs with emphasis on the Spanish-American War, the Panama Canal, Theodore Roosevelt's "Big Stick Diplomacy," United States role in World War I, and the League of Nations.